HABITABLE ZONES AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: NEW ESTIMATES
HABITABLE ZONES AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: NEW ESTIMATES
Identifying terrestrial planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of other stars is one of the primary goals of ongoing radial velocity and transit exoplanet surveys and proposed future space missions. Most current estimates of the boundaries of the HZ are based on 1-D, cloud-free, climate model calculations by Kasting et …